I think this song is a metaphor for depression and, more specifically, the irrational loss of hope. I haven't been depressed myself, although I must have come close, but I imagine and hear that it can be a place of darkness in which no hope seems to exist even if a bystander may see it very clearly.
This interpretation may clarify why Jesus Christ was chosen to be a character of hopelessness in this song. Because to demonstrate true hopelessness in its deepest form, why not portray the most hope giving character in history as someone who's lost all hope himself. After all, if he's lost hope what is there for us to hope for?
So, to hit the message home completely, the message seems to be that Jesus Christ has lost and the last call to heaven was 40 years ago. In other words: we're completely stuck down here and there's not a single way back up. Isn't that what depression is as an experience?
If this was the intention of the writer, hat's off. So brilliant. Well, it's brilliant anyway of course.
Let me know what you think.
[Edit: wanted to add a bit of nuance to the statement that I've never felt depression.]
I think this song is a metaphor for depression and, more specifically, the irrational loss of hope. I haven't been depressed myself, although I must have come close, but I imagine and hear that it can be a place of darkness in which no hope seems to exist even if a bystander may see it very clearly.
This interpretation may clarify why Jesus Christ was chosen to be a character of hopelessness in this song. Because to demonstrate true hopelessness in its deepest form, why not portray the most hope giving character in history as someone who's lost all hope himself. After all, if he's lost hope what is there for us to hope for?
So, to hit the message home completely, the message seems to be that Jesus Christ has lost and the last call to heaven was 40 years ago. In other words: we're completely stuck down here and there's not a single way back up. Isn't that what depression is as an experience?
If this was the intention of the writer, hat's off. So brilliant. Well, it's brilliant anyway of course.
Let me know what you think.
[Edit: wanted to add a bit of nuance to the statement that I've never felt depression.]